Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author of "Specimen Bricks" next claims his attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded in his cranial protector, - that is, if there be any cranium requiring protection." It is fortunate that Harvard is so distant from Niagara, or we really should fear personal violence from this would-be monk, who apparently believes that women have no business in the world. After all, in spite of the frequent recurrence of the Rt. Rev.'s and His Holiness in its pages, the Index is quite amusing, especially...
...universities that sprang up at the end of the Middle Ages, and of the various schools of art all over the continent of Europe. The reputation of one great teacher was sufficient to draw to Bologna or Padua students from the semi-barbarous Poland or the far-distant England. The genius of Titian made Venice the resort of his many admirers and pupils, in the same way that Michelangelo was the centre of art in Florence and Rome...